Would it be useful with an asArray() function?

[holroy]

Recently I've participated in threads where the user are using fields which could contain just one item, and as such is a "number" or "string", or it could have multiple items and the field is therefore and "array". We've then proceeded to do stuff like the following:

choice( typeof(someField) = "array", someField, list(someField) ) as someFieldList

This transform it so one can reliably use array function independent on it being a single or multiple value(s). So my question is would it be beneficial to have an asArray() function to do just this operation, so that the end user can reliably treat the field as an array later on (instead of loosing values/notes which are of the other variant (aka multiple values when expecting single value, or vice versa)?

Some threads where this logic has been applied:

• https://forum.obsidian.md/t/left-join-right-join-inner-join/53940/5
• https://forum.obsidian.md/t/is-this-possible-assign-scores-by-tag-ocurrence-querying-on-scores/56975/4?u=holroy
• https://forum.obsidian.md/t/table-with-plugin-dataview-show-only-first-author/56848/3?u=holroy
• https://forum.obsidian.md/t/list-notes-that-include-a-dataview-value-even-if-there-are-multiple-values/56056/10?u=holroy – For the country part

So what do you say, would it be useful to have an asArray() function as depicted above?
(I can make it for sure, but I just wanted some input if this would be as useful as I think it would be)